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When they sought for the cause, it was mainly in order to control the effect or if it was uncontrollable, to foreknow and adapt their conduct to it.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

Hath he chosen us because he did foreknow that we would be holy, and without blame, as men think?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

And besides, he has a laboured argument to prove, that God could not foreknow the future volitions of moral agents, unless he views them as “necessarily connected with something else that is evident.” pp. 115-117.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

See also Rom. viii, 29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,” and “whom he did predestinate —he called—justified—and sanctified.”

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

They could not hope to outdo Shakespeare and foreknow their respective Hamlets; they must slowly make their Hamlets' acquaintance by living with them.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .

From Time Magazine Archive

Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

For the Divine mind that planned the archetype also foreknew all its modifications.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

Indeed carnal reason will say that God foreknew what they would do, and so he chose or rejected them.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

They could not precede them unless we foreknew what the deviations were to be; and we could not afford to entrust the work of guessing to government officials.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

Wherefore we must consider what is true in the matter of foreknowing the future from dreams.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Oft have I walked these woodland paths, Without the blessed foreknowing That underneath the withered leaves The fairest buds were growing.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Bid my destiny Yield to thy power the dark and hidden end, And let me fall foreknowing.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

I speak not, my lord, as wishful of what I say, but simply as foreknowing it.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

Sang they: "Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies—" 4.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The fortunes of cities, as well as of men," said Plutarch, "have their certain periods of time prefixed, which may be collected and foreknown from the position of the stars."

From Time Magazine Archive

Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating.

From Time Magazine Archive

Need was there, by austere experiment, To test the frailty and the fall foreknown Of man, beneath o'erwhelming burthen bent?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton